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• Managing the firm’s fractional services department, including its sales and operations verticals.
• Supporting the strategic growth of emerging brands in DTC and B2B channels in a variety of grocery categories, including shelf-stable cookies and confectionery.

Phoenix, Arizona, US

• Managed the vendor-of-record programs in a variety of different grocery categories, including coffee, frozen entrees, and refrigerated deli.
• Built and maintained relationships with all manufacturing and operational partners.
• Worked closely with company's logistics team on demand planning, forecasting, and fulfillment.
• Reported to leadership on the financial performance of the programs.

Baltimore, Maryland, US

• Led the company's operations department, including the demand & supply chain, logistics & fulfillment, and systems and data management teams.
• Modeled, analyzed, and forecasted the company's financial performance, including COGs, cash flow, top-line revenue, margins, etc.
• Managed the company's CPG products in more than 6,000 locations, including conventional grocers, specialty retailers, and hotels.
• Implemented operational and structural changes to improve the company's performance.
• Onboarded multiple vendors, suppliers, co-manufacturers and co-packers to add resiliency to the company’s supply chain and enhance production capacity.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Published 500+ articles on topics covering DC's real estate trends, restaurant development news, and changes to the city's food industry for Eater, Thrillist, and Curbed.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Provided financial analysis and technical assistance to the health insurance marketplaces.
• Created a database to run demographic queries on possible beneficiaries of the state-run small business insurance marketplace.
• Catalogued inquiries from clients and stakeholders regarding the insurance marketplaces.

Mclean, VA, US

• Supported an Exhibit 300 IT investment project for a federal agency and developed alternatives analyses models and performance metrics for the investments.
• Modeled payment scenarios for a client to maximize interest accruals on overpayments while ensuring compliance with federal debt recollection regulations.
• Reviewed data to calculate payment errors for a federal healthcare program.
• Developed and executed a SAS use case to understand fraud trends in a federal program.
• Provided knowledge of Malawi’s economic policies for a World Bank proposal.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Implemented development strategies and infrastructure investments for Balaka District using demographic trends and economic indicators.
• Consulted with the Malawian government and NGOs to structure income-generating activities in economically depressed areas.
• Reduced district operational redundancies by coordinating a GIS mapping project to inventory service delivery and allocate resources to new growth centers.
• Trained staff members on new ICT hardware and software systems to improve the analytical capabilities of the district’s planning department.
• Developed a healthcare CSR program to provide services to over 20,000 beneficiaries.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Managed a microfinance program for entrepreneurs in a challenging business environment.
• Established a network of rural businesses to harness synergies and maximize profit margins.
• Created supply chains from the commercial capital to rural villages to ensure inputs and products were transported as efficiently as possible.
• Trained HIV-positive beneficiaries on income-generating activities, such as oil pressing, which improved the communities’ food and income securities.

B.A, Economics And Government

Study Abroad, Middle Eastern/Arabic Studies